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Toronto writer with bylines @citylab, @globeandmail, @spacing, @tvo, and others. Doer of plaques for @heritagetoronto. Opinions: own.

[toronTO @chrisbateman]

@TODreamsProject Wow! Congratulations Adam!

[toronTO @chrisbateman]

I have some stuff in this greatest hits collection!

[Spacing @Spacing]

@emilymayrose 2. The launch of "The Big Book of Spacing", a 248-page full-colour book that compiles the best content from 20 years of our magazine.

[Spacing @Spacing]

Drum roll, please....
OUR 20th ANNIVERSARY PARTY!

https://t.co/UtzF02QMJJ #TOpoli #ONpoli #toronto

[toronTO @chrisbateman]

Exiting daylight saving time like

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@dylan_reid A bunch on the University line have them. Osgoode, St. Andrew, St. Patrick

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@TODreamsProject @rachkmc Sadly this is news to me too. I will look into it, but this isn’t a good sign!

[Karon Liu @karonliu]

.@heritagetoronto
unveiled a plaque for Charlie Chong Farm, one of the first veg farms in the city that supplied restos and Chinatowns, despite having to operate during Canada's Head Tax and Chinese Exclusion Act. I spoke with the grandson on the legacy.
https://t.co/xr3J9haAhY

[toronTO @chrisbateman]

Have a whale of a time this summer :(

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Housing idea! Let’s resurrect this speculative concept for apartments built right into the Scarborough Bluffs

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I just cast my first ballot in Canada. Very easy, very quick. Advance voting runs June 8-13 🗳️

https://t.co/HJRfIs83MM

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Cautious Optimism Needed Today
By W. E. Maybee

Weekly Building Reporter, May 2, 1931

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Fri, March 22nd, 7pm. The Utopian Research Society presents an eclectic evening with the Philosophers Cafe Rainbow Farm.

1991. TPL, Alan and Thomas Suddon Collection

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The Capitalist Corporate Mind Machine, proceeds to the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, March 5th-10th, 8pm

1991. TPL, Alan and Thomas Suddon Collection

[toronTO @chrisbateman]

Catalogue typography was wild in 1890

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@tylergreenleaf I also had a copy of Californication ripped from a CD that spent months on the floor of a friend’s car. We used t-cut scratch remover to make it play

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@tylergreenleaf My awful quality MP3 of this track from the early 2000s has a glitch/defect that I didn’t realize until recently was not part of the song. Always expect to hear it

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Council butts heads, picks Beavis

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@VagueNotion If not now when?

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Crazy David for Mayor

1971. TPL, Alan and Thomas Suddon Collection, TPL

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Crazy David for Mayor

1971. TPL, Alan and Thomas Suddon Collection, TPL

[toronTO @chrisbateman]

@g_meslin I tried this and I'm appalled it was 10 years ago